Skeleton in well may solve 1960s mystery

Neighbours recall decades-old missing person case in Dresden, Ont.

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Human skeletal remains were found in an abandoned well behind this house in Dresden, Ont., on Wednesday afternoon. ((Jim Lagogianes/CBC))

The discovery of a human skeleton in an abandoned well in Dresden, Ont., has police examining the mysterious disappearance of a man more than 40 years ago.

A man doing renovations to a home on Sydenham Street discovered an abandoned well beneath an old deck.

When he removed some of the boards covering the well, he looked inside and saw bones.

Chatham-Kent police later confirmed the skeletal remains are human, but that it would take two days to remove the skeleton from the well, and several weeks to determine how old the bones are and whether they are those of a male or female.

But people who live in the town, approximately 30 kilometres north of the city of Chatham in southwestern Ontario, suspect they know whose remains are in the well.

Missing bachelor lived nearby

Clint Brown was a bachelor in the area who went missing in the early 1960s.

"Mr. Brown lived in a house just up the road here in a trailer and he disappeared," said Marty Zaruna.